Talk:Recrystallization
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Why is the packing-together of atoms described as a purely physical, non-chemical process? If coal is packed into diamond, then isn't this a chemical process? MisterSheik
- Yes and no. Coal being packed into diamond is a chemical process because the structure of diamond actually involves a covalent bonding network. Generally speaking, the types of crystals formed by more complex molecules (i.e. the kind you would want to purify by recrystallization) are held together by simpler electronic effects (i.e. London and dipole forces) rather than actual chemical bonds. In fact, Wikipedia has an article on crystalline compounds that would probably help you out a bit with this concept. --Elfer (talk) 16:36, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Can this article be merged with "Fractional crystallization"?(Thinker2006 15:49, 23 February 2006 (UTC))
[edit] defintion
i think that you people should just give the definiton of the word and not a whole essay about recrystallition.
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- the whole purpose of an encyclopedia is information given such as this. I found it helpful because it answered the question I had about recrystallization. If I just wanted a definition, I would have looked it up in Webster's dictionary.
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[edit] Mergers
- There a quite a few articles on aspects of crystals and Crystallization. I wonder to what degree some of these articles could be merged. For example, It seems that crystal growth is quite closely related to Crystallization (engineering aspects).
- See also:
- Crystal
- Crystal structure
- Crystallite
- Crystallization
- Crystal growth
- Fractional crystallization
- Recrystallization
- Seed crystal
- Single crystal
- and articles cited therein also!
- I suspect it would take a brave person to try and untangle/merge these articles !! -- Quantockgoblin 13:45, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
